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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What category are more relationships taking place in, according to Toffler?
(a) Committed relationships.
(b) Service relationships.
(c) Professional relationships.
(d) Family relationships.

2. What is the economics of transience?
(a) Educating children increases a family's future income.
(b) Building temporary housing instead of long-term buildings.
(c) Replacing things is cheaper than repairing them.
(d) Investing in the market pays better dividends than saving.

3. What is the consequence of the faster pace of things, in Toffler's account?
(a) People learn to conserve.
(b) People learn to respect each other's labor.
(c) People learn to pay what things are worth.
(d) People see things as disposable.

4. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?
(a) Agricultural workers.
(b) Mechanics.
(c) Technical workers.
(d) Doctors and dentists.

5. What will the changes of the future result in, as Toffler describes it?
(a) People not getting enough food.
(b) People not having a say in their governments.
(c) People not being able to afford medical care.
(d) People not knowing what makes sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the future entail in Toffler's account?

2. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?

3. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

4. What feeling characterizes the person who lives in what Toffler calls the fast lane?

5. What is the benefit of cultural transience to manufacturers?

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